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TIL: Yotsuya Kaidan, the most famous Japanese ghost story of Oiwa has a tradition that when Prior to staging an adaptation of Yotsuya Kaidan the principal actors and the director makes a pilgrimage to Oiwa's grave and ask her permission and blessing for their production.

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